importing a word table to a frame table

[Jeremy H. Griffith]

On Tue, 7 Mar 2006 17:35:20 -0800, "Gillian Flato" <gflato at nanometrics.com> 
wrote:

>An engineer gave me a 200 row 4 column table in a Word doc that needs to
>be added to a Frame table in a Frame doc. How can I do this without
>having to cut and paste each cell, or buy a piece of software which will
>take months to get approved, time which I don't have?

1. Select the rows you want to add in Word, Copy (ctrl-C).

2. In Frame, Paste Special as text right *after* the table
want to add them to.  You'll get one para per row, with a
tab in between cells, which will look awful in Frame.  But...

3. Select the material you just pasted, and Table | Convert
from text.  In the dialog, indicate a tab is the column 
delimiter, and specify the table format used for the one you
want to add it to.  You now have a set of table rows.

4. Cut the table rows, click in the first cell of the row
before or after where you want them, and Paste.  All done.

You might try this out with a few rows first, but then you
should be able to do the whole thing in one swell foop.  ;-)

HTH!

-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
  <jeremy at omsys.com>  http://www.omsys.com/